Spiny lizard

Spiny lizards is the common name for the genus Sceloporus in the subfamily Phrynosomatinae This genus includes some of the most commonly seen lizards in the United States

Contents

• 1 Taxonomy
  • 11 Species
• 2 See also
• 3 References
• 4 External links

Taxonomyedit

never The 102 species in the genus Sceloporus currently are organized into 21 species groups Their relationships to each other are currently under reviewclarification needed Listed below are species of Sceloporus:12

Speciesedit

• Sceloporus albiventris
• Sceloporus anahuacus
• Sceloporus angustus – Santa Cruz Island sator
• Sceloporus arenicolus – dunes sagebrush lizard
• Sceloporus asper
• Sceloporus aurantius3
• Sceloporus aureolus
• Sceloporus becki
• Sceloporus bicanthalis
• Sceloporus bimaculosus
• Sceloporus brownorum
• Sceloporus bulleri
• Sceloporus caeruleus
• Sceloporus carinatus
• Sceloporus cautus
• Sceloporus chaneyi
• Sceloporus chrysostictus yellow-spotted spiny lizard or Yucatán spiny lizard
• Sceloporus clarkii
• Sceloporus consobrinus – central fence lizard or prairie lizard
• Sceloporus couchii
• Sceloporus cowlesi – southwestern fence lizard
• Sceloporus cozumelae
• Sceloporus cryptus
• Sceloporus cupreus
• Sceloporus cyanogenys
• Sceloporus cyanostictus4
• Sceloporus druckercolini
• Sceloporus dugesii
• Sceloporus edbelli
• Sceloporus edwardtaylori
• Sceloporus exsul
• Sceloporus formosus
• Sceloporus gadoviae
• Sceloporus gadsdeni
• Sceloporus goldmani
• Sceloporus graciosus – sagebrush lizard
• Sceloporus grammicus – mesquite lizard or graphic spiny lizard
• Sceloporus grandaevus
• Sceloporus halli
• Sceloporus heterolepis
• Sceloporus horridus
• Sceloporus hunsakeri
• Sceloporus insignis
• Sceloporus internasalis
• Sceloporus jalapae
• Sceloporus jarrovii – Yarrow's spiny lizard,5 mountain spiny lizard
• Sceloporus lemosespinali
• Sceloporus licki
• Sceloporus lineatulus
• Sceloporus lunae
• Sceloporus lundelli
• Sceloporus macdougalli
• Sceloporus maculosus
• Sceloporus magister – desert spiny lizard
• Sceloporus malachiticus
• Sceloporus megalepidurus
• Sceloporus melanorhinus
• Sceloporus merriami – canyon lizard
• Sceloporus minor4
• Sceloporus mucronatus
• Sceloporus nelsoni
• Sceloporus oberon4
• Sceloporus occidentalis – western fence lizard
• Sceloporus ochoterenae
• Sceloporus olivaceus – Texas spiny lizard
• Sceloporus omiltemanus
• Sceloporus orcutti – granite spiny lizard
• Sceloporus ornatus
• Sceloporus palaciosi
• Sceloporus parvus
• Sceloporus poinsettii – crevice spiny lizard
• Sceloporus pyrocephalus
• Sceloporus salvini
• Sceloporus samcolemani
• Sceloporus scalaris – bunch grass lizard
• Sceloporus serrifer – blue spiny lizard
• Sceloporus shannonorum
• Sceloporus siniferus
• Sceloporus slevini – Slevin's bunchgrass lizard5
• Sceloporus smaragdinus
• Sceloporus smithi
• Sceloporus spinosus
• Sceloporus squamosus
• Sceloporus stejnegeri
• Sceloporus subpictus
• Sceloporus sugillatus4
• Sceloporus taeniocnemis
• Sceloporus tanneri – Tanner's spiny lizard5
• Sceloporus teapensis
• Sceloporus torquatus
• Sceloporus tristichus – plateau fence lizard
• Sceloporus undulatus – eastern fence lizard
• Sceloporus unicanthalis
• Sceloporus uniformis – yellow-backed spiny lizard
• Sceloporus utiformis
• Sceloporus variabilis – rosebelly lizard
• Sceloporus virgatus
• Sceloporus woodi – Florida scrub lizard
• Sceloporus zosteromus

See alsoedit

• Moloch horridus, an unrelated Australian lizard that is sometimes also referred to as "spiny lizard"

Referencesedit

1. ^ "Sceloporus " The Reptile Database wwwreptile-databaseorg
2. ^ "Sceloporus " ITIS wwwitisgov
3. ^ Grummer, Jared A; Bryson, Robert W Jr 2014 "A new species of bunchgrass lizard Squamata: Phrynosomatidae from the southern sky islands of the Sierra Madre Occidental, Mexico" PDF Zootaxa 3790 3: 439–450 doi:1011646/zootaxa379033 
4. ^ a b c d Wiens, John J; Penkrot, Tonya A 2002 "Delimiting Species Using DNA and Morphological Variation and Discordant Species Limits in Spiny Lizards Sceloporus" Systematic Biology 51 1: 69–91 doi:101080/106351502753475880 PMID 11943093 
5. ^ a b c Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael 2011 The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press xiii + 296 pp ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5 Sceloporus jarrovii, p 292; S slevin, p 245; S tanneri, p 260

External linksedit

• Video of Sceloporus jarrovii in Arizona
• Data related to Sceloporus at Wikispecies
• Media related to Sceloporus at Wikimedia Commons

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